Bill Clark
Veteran
Haven’t watched any part of the series. Probably won’t.
When I came back from combat in Viet Nam, for a short time I rented an apartment in L.A. Before my Honorable Discharge, I received a letter from the State of Minnesota, my previous place of residence, with a little monetary incentive to return to live, as I recall at least 6 months. A few years later, I received a letter from the V.A. requesting me to sign a form if I recall being exposed to agent orange. Agent orange was made by companies, it’s a defoliant, with Dow chemical or Monsanto and others made the chemical and shipped it in 55 gallon drums with an orange stripe painted on the drum for idenfication, hence the name “agent orange.”
I did buy camera equipment, Nikkormat and Nikkor lenses, a 5 piece place setting for 12 people of Noritake China that I still have today and a 56 piece of hand cut Sasaki crystal glasses that I still use and other stuff. I spent a week in Hong Kong for R & R.
Received a bunch of medals, some I don’t know if I actually earned, while there but, at any rate, I got them. Made quite a few photographs, mostly slides, haven’t looked at them for almost 50 years.
When I came back, my family had a gathering, my uncle Wayne was there at our gathering. He had it much worse than me as he served in the Army in WWII. He was captured by the Nazis, put in a P.OW. camp, but, one of few, he escaped and made it back to the American side. He didn’t have any kind words about God or religion. He said he still could see the look on the eyes, after many decades, of the first German soldier he killed. And his family, my Mom’s family, his and my Moms grand parents emigrated from Germany.
Humans are animals with a few other ingredients in our brains that we can choose to use or not use sometimes, all the time or never.
I’ve wondered, if our universe began with a big bang, extreme violence, our atoms were made from that soup. Maybe it’s inherent, for various reasons, we sometimes resort to violence. However, we do have a brain that can choose other paths rather than resorting to violence. Some decide to go on one path while others take another. Maybe we sometimes cross from one path to another. Wolves story, depends which one you feed.
When I came back from combat in Viet Nam, for a short time I rented an apartment in L.A. Before my Honorable Discharge, I received a letter from the State of Minnesota, my previous place of residence, with a little monetary incentive to return to live, as I recall at least 6 months. A few years later, I received a letter from the V.A. requesting me to sign a form if I recall being exposed to agent orange. Agent orange was made by companies, it’s a defoliant, with Dow chemical or Monsanto and others made the chemical and shipped it in 55 gallon drums with an orange stripe painted on the drum for idenfication, hence the name “agent orange.”
I did buy camera equipment, Nikkormat and Nikkor lenses, a 5 piece place setting for 12 people of Noritake China that I still have today and a 56 piece of hand cut Sasaki crystal glasses that I still use and other stuff. I spent a week in Hong Kong for R & R.
Received a bunch of medals, some I don’t know if I actually earned, while there but, at any rate, I got them. Made quite a few photographs, mostly slides, haven’t looked at them for almost 50 years.
When I came back, my family had a gathering, my uncle Wayne was there at our gathering. He had it much worse than me as he served in the Army in WWII. He was captured by the Nazis, put in a P.OW. camp, but, one of few, he escaped and made it back to the American side. He didn’t have any kind words about God or religion. He said he still could see the look on the eyes, after many decades, of the first German soldier he killed. And his family, my Mom’s family, his and my Moms grand parents emigrated from Germany.
Humans are animals with a few other ingredients in our brains that we can choose to use or not use sometimes, all the time or never.
I’ve wondered, if our universe began with a big bang, extreme violence, our atoms were made from that soup. Maybe it’s inherent, for various reasons, we sometimes resort to violence. However, we do have a brain that can choose other paths rather than resorting to violence. Some decide to go on one path while others take another. Maybe we sometimes cross from one path to another. Wolves story, depends which one you feed.
